Europe Quote by Nicholas Kristof

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

— Geert Wilders

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many…

— Desmond Tutu

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief…

— Daniel Pipes

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that…

— John Keegan

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous…

— Salman Rushdie

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had…

— Carroll Quigley

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived…

— Karen Armstrong

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether…

— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the…

— Peter Jennings